Waxing
Gibbous ♓ Pisces
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waxing Gibbous 85% illuminated
Waxing Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 85% and growing larger. The 11 days young Moon is in ♒ Aquarius.
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Moon phase and lunation details
3 days after First Quarter
Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 3 days on 3 October 2041 at 03:33.
Moonrise and moonset
Moon rises in the afternoon and sets after midnight to early morning. It is visible to the southeast in early evening and it is up for most of the night.
Moon in ♒ Aquarius
Moon is leaving the last ∠2° of ♒ Aquarius tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♓ Pisces later.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1970"
Lunar disc appears visually 2.6% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1970" and ∠1920".
Hunter Moon after 3 days
Next Full Moon is the Hunter Moon of October 2041 after 3 days on 9 October 2041 at 18:03.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Full Moon in Aries ♈ on 9 October 2041 at 18:03
- Last Quarter in Cancer ♋ on 16 October 2041 at 21:05
- New Moon in Scorpio ♏ on 25 October 2041 at 01:30
- First Quarter in Aquarius ♒ on 1 November 2041 at 12:05
Neap tide
There is low ocean tide on this date. Sun and Moon gravitational forces are not aligned, but meet at big angle, so their combined tidal force is weak.
Lunation 516 / 1469
The Moon is 11 days young. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the first to the middle part of current synodic month. This is lunation 516 of Meeus index or 1469 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.7 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 16 hours and 49 minutes. This is the year's longest synodic month of 2041. It is 43 minutes longer than the next lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to decreasing with the true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).
Lunation length longer than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 4 hours and 5 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 2 hours and 58 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠200.1°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠200.1°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠229.1°.
Moon before apogee
13 days after point of apogee on 23 September 2041 at 04:59 in ♍ Virgo. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 2 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 8 October 2041 at 12:08 in ♓ Pisces.
Distance to Moon 363 832 km
The Moon is 363 832 km (226 075 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 2 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 359 445 km (223 349 mi).
Moon before ascending node
8 days after descending node on 28 September 2041 at 03:42 in ♏ Scorpio. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following 4 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 11 October 2041 at 01:30 in ♉ Taurus.
Draconic month
22 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♈ Aries, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.
Moon after southern standstill
3 days since the previous standstill on 2 October 2041 at 19:54 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-27.789°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 8 days to face maximum declination of ∠27.830° at the point of next northern standstill on 15 October 2041 at 10:36 in ♋ Cancer.
Syzygy in 3 days
In 3 days on 9 October 2041 at 18:03 in ♈ Aries the Moon is going to be in a Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and thus forming the next Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy alignment.
